skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WiFi supports peer to peer stuff just fine.
Before the internet was pervasive me and my friends would play starcraft/minecraft over ad-hoc wifi networks with link local addresses.

Cell phone OSes automatically disconnect from these of course, there's no way to connect to the ad/telemetry services so what good would it be anyway?
Yep, we’re on the same page. Well put.
I agree that WebRTC is super exciting, but if you want to deploy it into production, you need to have a STUN server and a TURN server.

Until/unless we've all moved to IPv6 without any NAT, we'll be stuck needing STUN and TURN to make it work.
In a free market we’d be able choose a non-guild doctor.
yes, the resolution would entail that. its not about screwing people, its about fixing something thats broken. Isn't that what happened in 2008? Banks made stupid decisions, and government bailed them out for it. Obviously more complicated and probably higher stakes, but the crisis essentially boils down to that. Don't see why it can't happen here.
How is that in bad faith? I grew up in eastern europe and we got loads of such absurd "social commentary" that painted all bourgeoisie as bloodthirsty enslaving monsters. It actually had the opposite effect, contributed to uncritical adoration of the West.

So if we are going to have useful social commentary, let's perhaps focus on the actual and well-known psychopatic streaks of the CEOs and how they fit into their environment, not make comics villains out of them.
Exactly! from who the short are getting their money when they crash a company stock like Wirecard? Not from the company management who did it but from other shareholders, and most of the time "retail" shareholder.

They are running to the ground company that may survive with a fresh injection of capital, and destroying company that suddenly cannot raise more capital or have no more collateral for a loan.

Moreover they are this hedge fund are manipulating information to the level of a troll farm. I was a shareholder of AMD when they where starting to release the Zen architecture. Every other week, they were sending report of "problems" with the new architecture, or even basic feature behaving normally. Hedging is ok, but betting as they do is not. And when they get burned I celebrate!
Yes but those aren't naked shorts. You don't get short interest in 140% of the total shares available from people hedging their holdings. That did happen with GME and it's what the r/WSB people picked up on.
Albendazole is given as an example on the page. Last time I was in China, I purchased a pack of these pills just in a grocery store pharmacy, no prescription needed. It was something under a dollar per pill. How does Albendazole still cost $13 / pill to produce?
Which still doesn’t accept or pass on purchase GST credit.
What's the other side, though? Putting it into savings, at 0.5%? Forex?

The game is rigged against you, but you're still better off if you play.
> how to pass a reference to A all the way through the object graph to object B

you just end up replacing the object graph by the call graph, which makes all the business logic much messier as now every function call takes a "context" argument
Without regulatory credits they would lose 130M in Q4. This is relevant because government money is not scalable. If they grow revenues by 1000% and don't improve efficiency, they will lose money. Ridiculous for a company with P/E = 1700.

Energy generation and storage has a gross profit of -$30M. But "they're not just a car company".

Edit: Why the downvotes? Is it because this is a skeptical view that goes against the crowd?
For the people with the stock now to make real money they'll have to sell eventually either to the people who've shorted or to a normal investor right? Then after the short position closes the stock price will fall at least some because the demand will fall. Unless the only person buying stocks near the end is the shorter and everyone unloads their shares to them someone's buying above the price $GME will fall to.
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TSLA left the land of sound fundamental investments long ago.

It is comfortably enjoying life in the land of exuberant speculation.
Not really. It was at the beginning when they both only had core features for version control. But, if you compare them today and the last few years, Github is adding features that Gitlab had for a while. Mostly on CI/CD, Security, and Project Management.
Great work! Are you using Websockets under the hood? Or something WebRTC-based, a la https://geckosio.github.io/ ?
We could start by banning political campaign funding from corporations and unions.

I took a look at a handful of western democracies and they all either banned or drastically curtailed this. People need to be in control of their government, and that includes campaign funding.
that was 3 months ago . the market is forward looking.
Intel’s new desktop GPUs won’t work in AMD systems
This is highly subjective of course, but I think Vue has already surpassed React from a technical and ease-of-use standpoint.

Where React still leads handsomely is tooling (the official VS Code Vue plug-in is buggy as all hell), breadth of ecosystem, and employability.
It's almost like this isn't an either/or type of situation where a nation either has lobbying banned or suffers from corruption.

(And absolutely no one other than you has made this oversimplification in this comment chain.)
It does assume the short position is naked which might seem like the case but is not a confirmed fact as far as I understand the situation.
Weird how your ego can't acknowledge you misspoke.
Looks like a fun io game, congrats! One day i'll have the time to finish one of my games hahah

Also congrats on the fast load time! Slow JS is my biggest peeve about the modern web. My "daily drivers" are all under-powered hardware -- I have not spent more than ~$250 on a computer in like a decade -- which 1) forces me to develop lightweight & quick frontends, and 2) reveals just how awful so many websites are for anyone who isn't using the maxed-out MacBook Pro that the original developer used.
Thank you for your open and honest response. I've been on the waiting list for a few months myself and it's great to hear that Open AI is ramping up to meet the enormous demand for GPT-3.
Since you're nice and explaining things...what happens if a naked short gets called in but literally no one will sell any stock for any amount of money, so the shorter can't fulfill their obligation?

Obviously not going to happen with GME or anywhere realistically, but I'm just curious how that would be handled.
Right. Populating pulldowns, updating dynamic lists (available APs after a scan) etc.
This is interesting. Are the fires from the summer still burning? Or is this a repeating of the same fire?

Get it. Re-peat-ing... I'll show myself out.
Disagree. I may be on HN right now, but if I were not at work I wouldn't be on HN. I wouldn't be on my computer at all, in fact. Right now I am available, which provides value to my employer at my personal expense.

Not using part of my life in the way I see fit because I need to make a living? Work.
Right, if you want to push your populist agenda of state control in the name of the people™ you should really open with that.
I like the diep.io a-like game. What other JavaScript resources did you use to build this?
Reddit inks scaling tech partnership with the Ethereum Foundation
"Popular online forum site Reddit is partnering with the Ethereum Foundation, according to an announcement made Wednesday.

In a post penned by Reddit admin jarins on the r/Ethereum subreddit, the partnership signifies how Reddit 'will be increasing our commitment to blockchain, accelerating scaling and resources for the Ethereum ecosystem, and bringing the value and independence of blockchain technology to our communities and millions of redditors.'"
MRI machines also require superconducting magnets and liquid helium, high-amperage utility hookups, etc., so they might just be expensive regardless.
>and they invest in building out new gigafactories based on the total net income they have

Oh look, another person making the claim capex comes off top line income.
Made me think of a time I didnt do adequate research before buying an expensive flight ticket: I was in Changi Airport and had a cheap return ticket to Malaysia, when I got back I was going to travel in the east coast of Australia for a few weeks as the end of my study abroad in Asia.
It dawned to me that I never actually checked the Visa rules for Australia, but just pressumed that they would be like any othet commonweath country I had previously visited. Turned out I was lucky and didnt need a paper visa, but could do with an e-visa.
As my HTC Desire Android phone had died in the humiddity, I only had the cheapest nokia I could find, X-1 ... Armed with a 2011 public internet kiosk of internet explorer, I tabulated through the australian immigration forms and found the correct form, filled it out while my browsing session of the kiosk expired, after a few tries, I knew exactly the way around the static site, and was what some would call "speedrunning" through their website. After sumbitting I just had to hope for the best. If that site had been required any more than it did, I am not sure I would have been able to submit my application through that public internet browser.
The sad part is that people tell this lie to themselves and resolve not to put forth any attempt to stay in touch, just accept “falloff” by others as evidence of Facebook lock-in. Facebook doesn’t even have to tell us this lie and use propaganda to convince us - we tell ourselves the lie!

Speaking as someone who never had Facebook, I’ve experienced zero loss of connection with anyone in many networks of family, friends, colleagues, etc. Just a simple email thread to share stories and photos here or there, phone calls, SMS text chats or other apps. It’s so easy and seamless to stay in touch with no part of it involving Facebook.
ah gotcha! for some reason i thought you were talking at the component level, not app level.
I have imported Colchicine from overseas pharmacies with regularity and never had an issue with it being seized. The prices I get are significantly cheaper because of the patent issue on that 2000 year old drug. For uncontrolled legacy drugs affected by patent issues this is probably viable for the tech savvy (and for those who can afford to wait quite a while). It would be nice if it could be done on an industrial scale instead of as an individual.
This will partially ignore your attribution that the US problem is a complex multi-faceted issue (I agree with that but wanted to focus in) - you mention that higher education is too expensive and suggest that there are many other societal factors that make the US noncompetitive. This can cause an effect like we're seeing with the US healthcare market but the US does well in a lot of the more transferable industries (like software development) and I'm not seeing how the factors you're highlighting for healthcare wouldn't equally apply to all of those transferable jobs.
The article is behind a PII wall so I didn't read beyond the introduction but I wonder if this is a modern version of the WeFax program from the 1980s that allowed 8-bit home computers like the TRS-80 Color Computer and the Atari series to get NOAA maps using a shortwave radio.
FWIW: I wonder if you are in an urban area? When I compare the cost of vet services with my friends in an urban setting relative to what we pay here in rural, small-town America, I'm shocked at the difference. We have a university about a two hour drive away with a noted vet hospital - even their services were priced better than those I've heard anecdotally on the other (more urbanized) side of the state.
The problem is that your catastrophic costs are likely to be massively higher if your problems are not caught by routine checkups and standard screenings. But if we make people pay the full costs for routine checkups and standard screenings, they won't bother getting them. So it is in the interest of your insurance company to make sure you get those checkups and screenings.

By contrast your odds of a catastrophic collision have more to do with drivers and driving collisions than they do with whether you got an oil change recently. If they were insuring your cost of major repairs and buying a new car, then they would have an incentive to get involved with routine maintenance as well.
What's the overall effect of forests vs farm/crop land? Forests provide homes to lots of animals. Farms do not. Forests help recycle the air. Farms do not. I'm sure there's others, but you get the point. At least, I hope you can honestly see a difference between a forest and farm land and that this is just some sort of mental gymnastics excersising of your devil's advocate muscles.
It would be nice to know if the Brazil variant is more dangerous or not. The ideal case is a variant that gets more easily transmissible but less harmful - everyone could pass it on and become immune to the other strains.
Yeah, you definitely called that one. It's like a smouldering cornucopia of antisemitism, "Buy GME", penises, "Death to America", more penises, more GME... if an alien race were using this as a tool to profile us and decide our fate, we'd be toast. Props to the author for creating something entertaining, but it just goes to show you can't control what people post.
Introduction to React JavaScript
Not quite a league of their own but a short list of companies for sure - Microsoft posted revenue of $43B this quarter (not as high as Apples $110B Q) but with a 32% net profit margin.
Plenty of things are nonlinear in physics though.

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law
@mike_h, please edit the title to say "Coronavirus variant" to reduce confusion.

Current title: "Why Scientists Are Worried About the Variant from Brazil"
GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Microsoft implemented a more generous free tier in 2020, but even before the acquisition the pricing structure was $7 - $21 per user, per month.

GitLab is now $19 - $99. If I wanted to move my organization to GitLab it would now cost me an additional $78 per user, per month. A total nonstarter, even if I desperately hated GitHub.

I don't understand the suddenness to this maneuver by GitLab. My guess is it is driven by the CI/CD minutes, but they have really thrown out the baby with the bathwater with their pricing structure.
People really seem to hate right to repair
I think the author is arguing here that the solution to combating institutional gambling via trading is not to allow retail investors to also gamble.

Should someone who has no idea what they're doing be able to leverage themselves up 100X to buy a call/sell option by pressing a few buttons in Robinhood because they read about YOLO stock on Wallstreetbets?

As someone who has lost a lot of money by following the Reddit sentiment on an investment, I think the author's point here is fair.

This is not to say I wasn't an idiot. I was. But at a hard time in my life I needed more money so I gambled big and lost big. I worry other people will fall into the same trap.
> There are many firms who could create value if only they had more capital to work with.

Those don’t need to be misvalued to get capital, they just need to be properly valued.

In fact if they cannot get the capital it’s because of misvaluation! And other misvalued firms that will destroy value get that capital instead.
I call them 'professional morons'--high-profile who have a lot of status and money and clout in various tech and investment fields despite being sorta dim and banal
Not sure if refreshing the interior is going to be enough to combat declining sales.

Most car companies would have refreshed the exterior design at least a couple of times in the same 10 year timeframe to avoid it looking stale and dated.
This article could have been 5-6 scrolls, but since it was written by a wamen I guess even a book couldn't cover the subject enough
Peat fires like this are smouldering combustion.

Smouldering happens on the surface of the material and not in the gas like in the flaming combustion. Compared to flaming combustion smouldering combustion is slower, lower temperature (900 C) vs and flameless. Smouldering is typical for porous fuels like peat.

The burning is sustained by heat. The burning beat is little underground. The burning peat is insulated so that the heat does not escape and the smouldering can continue.
The overwhelming majority of YouTube content is junk, people shouldn't rely on it to stay informed, at best, they should cherry-pick a few quality sources to supplement others. Yes, there are some people who rely exclusively on YouTube just like there are some that rely exclusively on Fox News to stay informed, in both cases it is the responsibility of the media consumer to make better choices.
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A lot of people have had the hammer brought down on them for pump and dumps performed by only making true statements.
The market is sometimes forward looking, and sometimes a bubble.
Don't let yourself down when looking for a job
> It is likely that a substantial amount of GME is being held by the institutions who had short exposure.

To some extent, sure, but bear in mind the total short exposure was 140% of the total GME shares.
Well it should. Market cap is meaningless for companies with a lot of debt (industrial companies typically). And if you don't understand that you will make a lot of meaningless comparisons.

Also, if you believe in efficient markets (and lets admit this is a hard week to do that) then you know that companies are valued based on future profits, not future revenues. Google and Ford had very similar revenue in say, 2019. But there enterprise values were completely different because of gross margins and profits.
I've gotta run, I'll take a look later if other questions come in!
Yea... but what exactly are sound fundamentals? (Not directed at you, just topical).

Is Apple at 40x P/E (which is a very simple and over-used metric) still fundamentally sound? Amazon? I think the rule of thumb was always 12x. Ok so what company is that? Intel?

I think what we're seeing is the result of excess capital. Items like accredited investor definitions lock people out of the VC space so if you can't buy a house because they are too expensive or sold before they hit market... what else are you going to do with your money? Some return looks a lot better than no return...

Granted, Tesla does have an extremely high valuation but, well, who cares? I think that's the general sentiment. It's a speculative investment.

* Disclaimer I own a small amount of Apple and Tesla shares and have a positive outlook on the future of both companies. Use your own judgement when investing or considering things you read on the Internet
I'll bet you it will be a long time before stock based compensation slows down. It's part of the game.
Yeah the Pierson's Puppeteers in Ringworld (1970) did something like that [edit: on second thought, it wasn't as a signal though], and I'm sure there are others.

But in this case I just don't think this is weird enough, it's probably more a matter of tweaking planetary formation models.
I wonder if Microsoft is going to embed Github into one of their 365 packages. They can offer Office + Teams + Github as one package and it will be impossible for Gitlab to compete for enterprise customers on their managed plans.
Blockchains are just a tool to maintain social consensus. We do not serve them. The community can modify them as necessary and there's nothing wrong with that.
>The issue is that a lot of developers will want to use React for everything else on the page, because they think it's "icky" to use other kinds of tech in other parts of the website.

It is though. I work on an app thats 80% react and 20% rails SSR and when working on anything, seeing that an area that needs change is written with SSR makes the job 10x harder as you have to come up with alternative methods to get it working or just rewrite it in react. When everything is react everything is quite easy and you can pass around data and update things without a refresh easily.
Fires are less likely to ignite in very cold weather as the environment is taking energy out of the reaction. Once it gets going cold doesn't matter much.
Yeah pretty neat. -50F is as far from 40F as 130F is. (The absolute difference is 90 degrees F)
That is just a generic trend. It doesn't explain who participated in the past 3 days of volume.
Has anyone written the appropriate Reader wrappers to use this with file io? (Asking b/c a quick search didn't turn anything up.)
Turns out all those people dramatically saying they're finally moving off macOS for good don't really count for anything! Who could have guessed?
Two different things entirely. The fake “Discount off MSRP” demanded by the PBM has nothing to do with the profit margin of the PBM, that would be based on markup they charge to their customers above the price they actually pay.

But the regular uninsured consumer sure gets screwed.

I think this is why there are now self-pay “codes” you can give a pharmacy to get a significant discount off retail price. Sometimes less than your co-pay, but of course then it doesn’t count toward your deductible.

I wish they would simply ban these pricing gimmicks as part of a price transparency law.

There should be one price and one price only the manufacturer can charge in the USA per dose of an FDA approved medicine, with no ability to do price differentiation, period. No more negotiating, no more kickbacks. Insurance should have to show you the actual price they paid, and no other. And then you pay the patient responsibility of the bill based on your standard policy formula.

The same pricing transparency should be applied to labs and procedures where it should be illegal for a given facility to charge two different patients two different prices for the same product or service.
More likely it's to keep down the likes of Brave and Opera than Chromium on Linux/BSD, which are probably barely a blip by comparison.

If MS were smart, they'd open up their alternatives to the Chromium community. They've done such a good job at building goodwill the past few years, and would be a nice gesture.
Glad you're getting some space from them. I'm doing the same myself. Not sure how much I blame parents, though. These sites are designed like slot machines, which means there are a number of professionals and executives out there who consciously sought to addict people to their platforms. Shame on them.
You can serialize pretty complex graphs of data and UI information in a new format called "HTML."
The software capable of consuming this format is able to merge fragments of it into something called a DOM.

If you're doing something more complex than this in your app then quit whining about browsers not being convenient for you to abuse. The users don't want your crap any more than browser implementers do.
What about equity holders of hundreds of close-to-defunct financial institutions who were able to bounce back only due to government intervention?
Regulatory credits and net profit don't change what they optimize for. They have lot of cash and can easily raise more.
This article was far more interesting than I thought it was going to be.
> Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!

I have, under duress. It was a result of using syntactic sugar wrapping a PHP website to make a Python API; it was convenient to pass form variables into a generic handler method of a class. The problem? The website, fully outside of my control, had a page which had an input named "self" which resulted in two values for that argument. Rather than refactor the class and dozens of scripts that depended on it, I renamed 'self' to 's_lf' in that one function and called it a day.

Also, python has class methods. The convention is to use 'cls' in that context, to avoid confusing the parameter (a class) with an instance of that class.